Prayer for a Tenspeed
Heart
Let the fire of my
body
propel and warm me
and let each darkness
reveal its
plenitude.
Let the hills
flatten
under my wheels
and let the eloquent curves
yield up their good
surprise.
Let my heart be
obstinate
when I need to climb
and let my lowliest gears
restrain my
spinning down.
Let there be flatland,
too,
and into that glittering place
let me stretch with the heart of a
lover,
at full speed, blind and intent.
~ Barbara Hendryson
~
(Cries of the Spirit, edited by Marilyn Sewell)
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